Our Team
Group-IB’s team comprises top industry talents. We investigate the most sophisticated cybercrimes all over the world and create products designed to protect against them.
360+
employees
40%
Research & Development
27
median age of employees
60 000+
combined hours of incident response
Ilya Sachkov
CEO, Founder of Group-IB
In 2003, Ilya founded Group-IB — one of the global leaders in preventing and investigating cybercrime.
Ilya is one of the 26 prominent independent commissioners for the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, a member of cybercrime expert committees in the Council of Europe and the OSCE. He is a Member of Young President Organisation (YPO) — global network of young chief executives. He takes part in the work of the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity.
In 2010, Ilya became the first Russian national to win the Digital Crimes Consortium award for his contribution to international exchange of experience in the field of computer forensics.
In 2015-2017, Ilya was awarded the EY Entrepreneur of the Year National Award three times in a row in the «Information Security for Business» category.
In 2016, he was featured in the global list of Forbes 30 Under 30 among the brightest young businessmen in «Enterprise Tech» category, where Mark Zuckerberg was ranked first in 2011.
Since 2017, he is an associate professor of the Bauman Technical University at the Department of Information Security, the department he graduated with honors in 2009.
In 2018, Ilya made it to the Russian Reporter and Russia Beyond the Headlines prominent people of the year lists.
In 2019, he was named a winner of the Nemaly Business Prize in the category «Innovative Breakthrough» and was listed among the top 100 young economic leaders by the French «Institut Choiseul».
Without incident response and forensics capabilities, you will never understand what’s really going on ... It’s only through incident response that you will get the necessary technical indicators and understand the kill chain. This information can then be fed to your threat intelligence structure.
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The biggest problem awaiting us in the near future is the emergence of cyber terrorists, who are not interested in financial attacks. They want to attack critical infrastructure. And they are using the exact same tools that organized crime has used.
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Everyone knows that never any information was leaked from us and was not used in the politics, we have a level of trust. We did not lose any client in the United States or in the Great Britain, in Europe we are even growing.
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Lack of administrative barriers, tax incentives, a favourable investment climate and a strategy for creating a vibrant cybersecurity ecosystem — these are just some of the reasons why we at Group-IB have chosen Singapore as a platform for our international business development.
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Dmitry Volkov
CTO, Head of Threat Intelligence Department, Сo-founder of Group-IB
Since co-founding Group-IB in 2003, he has been a prominent voice leading the company toward becoming the go-to expert on international cybercrime. His team successfully conducted the first cyber investigations. They have identified and helped detain cyber criminals who targeted public and private companies worldwide.
In 2017 Dmitry became Chief Technology Officer at Group-IB. In his new role, Dmitry is responsible for all aspects of the company’s technological development and transformation.
In 2016, he became a member of the Europol EC3 Advisory Group on Internet Security.
In 2015, Dmitry was listed by Business Insider as one of the top 7 professionals behind influential security companies.
In 2013, Dmitry Volkov became a member of the UN Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert Group aimed at conducting a comprehensive study on the problem of global cybercrime.
Meet our team
Anastasiya Komissarova
Chief of Staff to the CEO
Nicholas Palmer
Director of International Business Development
Pavel Krylov
Head of fraud prevention department
Aleksandr Lazarenko
Head of R&D Department
Nikolay Andreev
Head of information security products development
Anton Fishman
Head of system solutions department
Igor Smirnov
Chief Commercial Officer
Nika Komarova
Head of Corporate Communications
Alena Efimova
Head of Legal Department
Dmitry Kuznetsov
Sales Director
Camill Cebulla
Sales Director, Europe
Tim Bobak
Sales Director, UK & MEA
Shafique Dawood
Head of Sales and Business Development, APAC
Hanno Roding
Channel Sales Director